Casper Hauser: An Account of an Individual Kept in a Dungeon, Separated from All Communication with the World, from Early Childhood to about the Age of Seventeen. Drawn Up from Legal Documents
Casper Hauser: An Account of an Individual Kept in a Dungeon, Separated from All Communication with the World, from Early Childhood to about the Age of Seventeen. Drawn Up from Legal Documents
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ... Casper Hauser Paul Johann Anselm Feuerbach (Ritter von) TO HIS LORDSHIP, THE EAKL OF STANHOPE, Peer of Great Britain, ho. To no one could this dedication have been addressed with greater propriety than (o your Lordship; in whose person, Providence has appointed to the youth, without childhood and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ... Casper Hauser Paul Johann Anselm Feuerbach (Ritter von) TO HIS LORDSHIP, THE EAKL OF STANHOPE, Peer of Great Britain, ho. To no one could this dedication have been addressed with greater propriety than (o your Lordship; in whose person, Providence has appointed to the youth, without childhood and boyhood, a paternal friend and powerful protector. Beyond the sea, in fair old England, you have prepared for him a secure retreat, until the rising sun of truth shall have dispersed the darkness which still hangs over his mysterious fate; perhaps, in the remainder of his half murdered life, he may yet hope for days, for the sake of which, he will no longer regret his having seen the light of this world. For such a deed, none but the genius of humanity can recompense You. In the vast desert of the present times, when PREFACE. In offering the following pages to the public, it will be necessary to say but a very few words on the subject of them, or of their distinguished German author and the American translator, in order to show the peculiar claims, which they have to the attention of the reader. Caspar Hauser, the subject of this work, is the individual of whom many persons will recollect to have seen, some years ago, an account in the papers of the day. He was then represented as having been found in Nuremberg in a state, which threw the greatest mystery over his previous life. Hauser was at that time, about sixteen or seventeen years old, had never learned to speak, and soon showed that he had been shut out during his whole life from all communication with the world* A narrow, dark dungeon, in which he was always obliged to remain in a sitting posture, so that even his bones had assumed a peculiar shape, had been a
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